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The sky on
2 January 2026.

Every planet at noon, Greenwich time, with the Moon’s phase and what was retrograde.

The MoonFull Moon99% lit, waxing

Moon inGemini29° Gemini

Sun inCapricorn12° Capricorn

Jupiter and Uranus are retrograde.

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The zodiac with Aries at the left, every planet in its sign and the Moon at the centre, lit as it is that day.

Every planet

PlanetSignDegreeMotion
SunCapricorn12°Direct
MoonGemini29°Direct
MercuryCapricorn0°Direct
VenusCapricorn11°Direct
MarsCapricorn13°Direct
JupiterCancer21°Retrograde
SaturnPisces26°Direct
UranusTaurus27°Retrograde
NeptunePisces29°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon square Neptune0.2°
  • Sun conjunction Venus1.0°
  • Mercury square Neptune1.4°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus1.6°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.6°
  • Sun conjunction Mars1.7°
  • Moon opposition Mercury1.7°
  • Venus conjunction Mars2.8°

The number is the orb: how far the two planets are from the exact angle.

Reading the wheel

The outer ring is the zodiac, with Aries at the left and the signs running counterclockwise, the way a birth chart is drawn. Each planet sits at its place in its sign. The lines across the middle join planets in a major aspect: blue for the easy ones, trines and sextiles, and rose for the tense ones, squares and oppositions.

What retrograde means

A planet is retrograde when, seen from Earth, it seems to move backwards through the zodiac for a while. It is an effect of our own orbit overtaking it, or it overtaking us. Astrology reads those weeks as a time to review, repair and return, rather than to begin.

The Moon’s phase and sign

The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, and goes from new to full and back in about twenty nine and a half. At any one moment its sign and phase are the same wherever you are on Earth.